View source for Sphagnum tenellum

{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Sphagnum tenellum
|accepted_authority=(Bridel) Bory
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Voy. Îles Afrique.
|place=3: 107. 1804,
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Sphagnum cymbifolium var. tenellum
|authority=Bridel
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Sphagnum molluscum
|authority=unknown
}}
|hierarchy=Sphagnaceae;Sphagnum;Sphagnum sect. Cuspidata;Sphagnum tenellum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Sphagnaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Sphagnum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Sphagnum sect. Cuspidata]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Sphagnum tenellum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 27
|mention_page=page 62, 81, 84, 96
|treatment_page=page 76
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>small, slender and weak-stemmed; pale yellow to golden brown, rarely tinged with red; capitulum not especially distinct. <b>Stems</b> pale green to pale brown; superficial cortex of 2–3 layers of enlarged thin-walled cells. <b>Stem</b> leaves ovate-lingulate; 1–1.3 mm, apex broadly rounded; hyaline cells nonseptate, aporose and fibrillose in at least distal half of leaf. <b>Branches</b> 2–3 spreading and 2 pendent leaves not much elongated at distal end. <b>Branch</b> stems green; cortex enlarged, with conspicuously long-necked retort cells. <b>Branch</b> leaves ovate, 1–1.5 mm; straight; not or weakly undulate or recurved when dry; margins entire; hyaline cells short and wide, convex surface with 1–3 small pores per cell and on concave surface with large round wall thinnings in the cell angles; chlorophyllous cells equilateral-triangular in transverse section, broadly exposed on convex surface and just reaching to well-enclosed on concave surface. <b>Sexual</b> condition monoicous. <b>Spores</b> 27–42 µm; both surfaces smooth, proximal surface with distinct bifurcated Y-mark sculpture surrounded by distinct circular border, distal surface with distinct raised border around margins; proximal laesura usually less than 0.4 spore radius.</span><!--

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|phenology=Capsules mature early to mid summer.
|habitat=Wet depressions in a variety of ombrotropic and weakly minerotrophic habitats
|elevation=low to high elevations
|distribution=Greenland;B.C.;Man.;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);N.S.;Alaska;Maine;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Eurasia.
|discussion=<p>Sporophytes are common in <i>Sphagnum tenellum</i>. The delicate appearance created by the ovate and concave branch leaves as well as the large concave stem leaves make this a usually unmistakeable species.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Sphagnum tenellum
|author=
|authority=(Bridel) Bory
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Sphagnum molluscum
|basionyms=Sphagnum cymbifolium var. tenellum
|family=Sphagnaceae
|phenology=Capsules mature early to mid summer.
|habitat=Wet depressions in a variety of ombrotropic and weakly minerotrophic habitats
|elevation=low to high elevations
|distribution=Greenland;B.C.;Man.;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);N.S.;Alaska;Maine;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Eurasia.
|reference=None
|publication title=Voy. Îles Afrique.
|publication year=
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/8f726806613d60c220dc4493de13607dd3150896/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V27/V27_61.xml
|genus=Sphagnum
|section=Sphagnum sect. Cuspidata
|species=Sphagnum tenellum
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